Tag: Corporate America
‘Bulo Remembers 2009-The Most Censored News Stories of the Year
Every year, Project Censored highlights “The News That Didn’t Make the News”, and reports what should’ve been in every paper and on every media outlet in America. This year’s list should be mandatory reading for DL contributors and readers alike. You can click on links for each of the 25 stories, and find out what […]
Setting Up a Shell Company In Panama, So Easy an Intern Can Do It
Public Citizen brings us this video explaining how easy it is to avoid paying taxes on your corporate income. The video was created to explain the impact on tax avoidance if the US signs on to the Panama Free Trade Agreement. Apparently the whole process is streamlined and secret in Panama (John McCain’s home country) […]
UPDATED: The Budget Middle Way
I have an email out to the Gov’s office asking for his take on the Kowalko/Liberalgeek plan. I have to think that the sheer practicality of some of the suggestions made will carry some weight. – jason330 Governor Markell has always said that the last thing that he wants is to have to cut state […]
From My Junk Mail File
Just got an auto insurance solicitation from Allstate. Immediately threw it out – know why? Why would I want to get my insurance from the worst insurance company in America? How could I do business with a company that instructs its adjusters to lie to their customers? Allstate’s confrontational attitude towards its own policyholders was […]
Citigroup Gets a Well Deserved Spanking
After taking 45 billion in tax payer money Citigroup unveiled their plans to purchase a 50 million dollar luxury jet that seats twelve. Fortunately the Obama Administration stepped in – and what do you know? – bye, bye jet. ABC News has learned that on Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroupabout the company’s […]
Book Review — Free Lunch, How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
Free Lunch, How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston documents many of the ways that politicians and business owners collude to transfer massive amounts of tax revenues into the pockets of these business owners. Johnston is a reporter at the NYT and his […]
Entitlement Reform
It has gotten bad. The economy is in a shambles, well-respected companies are being consolidated into oblivion, people are working harder for less buying power. The culprits in some of these cases are entitlements. CEOs, CFOs and the like all feel that they are entitled to tens of millions of dollars as a payment for […]
JP Morgan’s Plan to Help You (Or Someone Like You, but Richer) Execute Insider Trades
Wikileaks has a document online that details how JP Morgan helps its insider investors sell their stock in ways that circumvent insider trading laws. Does it work? Alan D. Jagolinzer, an assistant professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, recently completed a study of roughly 117,000 trades in 10b5-1 plans by 3,426 executives at […]
Suck on this FSP
Good GOD! If this doesn’t wake you up on Fox News I don’t know what will… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3BDvfAf2c4[/youtube] Von Cracker sent me this….What say you now FSP? Fair and balanced?
Finally an American Car Co. giving us what we want!!!
Oh wait, it’s Honda honestly, you didn’t believe the headline did you?
Snus anyone
It rhymes with “goose,” (cynics might say “noose”), and is a Swedish type of smokeless tobacco that’s not your grandfather’s dip or chew. Snus comes in teabag-like pouches that a user sticks between the upper lip and gum, leaves there for up to 30 minutes and discards without spitting. As no-smoking laws sweep the nation […]
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